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 NT    Black-footed Albatross* Id (Atlas):
    Phoebastria nigripes

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Diomedea nigripes [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Diomedea nigripes [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Diomedea nigripes [Stotz et al. (1996)], Diomedea nigripes [Turbott (1990)]

Family
Diomedeidae (Albatrosses)

Size
62 - 82 cm
Wingspan: 193 - 220 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Audubon, 1849)

Range (Guide)
Canada (NB), China (mainland) (NB), Eastern Central Pacific (B) (NB), Guam (NB), Japan (B), Marshall Islands (NB), Mexico (NB), Micronesia [Federated States of] (NB), Northeast Pacific (NB), Northwest Pacific (B) (NB), Russia (Asian) (NB), South Korea (NB), Taiwan (China) (NB), United States Minor Outlying Islands (B), USA, Western Central Pacific (NB).

Vagrant to New Zealand.

Unknown to Northern Mariana Islands, Palau.

Western Hawaii; small numbers in Izu, Bonin and southern Ryukyu Is, to south of Japan.
 
Population
Estimated population is 120,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (21)...)

 
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) [XC165981]
     by david m from Sand Island, Midway Atoll, United States (call, bill clappering)

 
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) [XC167068]
     by david m from Sand Island, Midway Atoll, United States (call, bill clappering)

Subspecies
Known to have hybridized with Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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